Hugh Miles is an award-winning journalist and author specialising in the Middle East. He is married with three children and lives in Cairo.

Hugh Miles was born in Jedda, Saudi Arabia in 1977. He studied Arabic at Pembroke College, Oxford University, and English Literature at Trinity College, Dublin. His first and most formative experience of professional journalism was as an office boy at the Irish News of the World in Dublin. In 2000 while a student Hugh was chosen as The Times / Sky News Young Journalist of the Year.

During a one-year student exchange programme with the Sorbonne University in Paris, Hugh worked as the Nightlife Editor for Time Out Paris. Besides reviewing countless nightclubs, raves, restaurants and shops, his work included sampling every crepe house in Paris.

The day he graduated from university, Hugh flew to Beverly Hills, Los Angeles to work as Development Director for Oscar-winning Producer Michael Phillips (Taxi Driver, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Sting). He worked closely with leading Hollywood producers, packaging movies, raising finance, attracting talent and developing big budget scripts.

In 2002 Hugh returned to the UK to become a writer and freelance journalist. Since then he has authored two books, contributed to several more, and worked extensively in a wide variety of print, radio and TV media.

His work has appeared on the front page of the Guardian, Independent and Telegraph newspapers, been translated into several languages and serialised in daily newspapers. He is a frequent guest in the international media and at conferences and events around the world.

In 2015 Hugh broke the news that a senior Saudi prince was calling for regime change in Riyadh, a story that went around the world.

In 2016 Hugh exposed the Saudi government's secret programme to kidnap Saudi defectors and dissidents living in Europe. He produced the BBC documentary "Kidnapped! Saudi Princes" (broadcast Sept 2017) and in October 2017 the Saudi government admitted they had indeed abducted three princes from Europe and that they are now back in Saudi Arabia being treated as "criminals".

Since 2012 Hugh has served on the Board of Directors of MEBCS, an Egyptian NGO that oversees the management of the Maadi British International School, the leading UK primary school in Egypt.

Hugh is the Director of Al Shafie Miles, a boutique business consultancy which uses a network of Middle East experts to help corporate clients do business in the Arab world.

He is also editor of ArabDigest.org, an online club where business leaders and experts on the Middle East and North Africa come together to discuss the issues in the region that matter most.